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... to Checkpoint Charlie. This marked the one entry point the U.S. Allies had into East Berlin during the Cold War. It's now kind of cheesy with the fake soldiers and all of the tourist and trinket shops nearby. We (but Mike, in particular) are rather turned off by this type of commercialization - especially around historically significant landmarks. We made our way to Alexanderplatz - named after Alexander the Great. There's an odd juxtaposition of centuries-old architecture and ...

... can't believe we are in Berlin" or "prague is beautiful" mostly everytime it's "what's the wifi password?" Move to Berlin, buy a dog and get your funky hipster vibe on I did try a beer in Germany, don't worry, Still not a fan. Don't fake a language when walking around the hostel to try make yourself seem more exotic and interesting... Random noises that sound angry doesn't result in a language Everything smells of smoke, it's legal to smoke in bars n Europe. ...

... Concentration Camp on the outskirts of Berlin, I won't say too much about this as it was quite hard to comprehend just how mankind can be so cruel. It's a place that I have always wanted to visit, but then again it was a very hard place to visit. This Camp was central to all the concentration camps so therefore became a Training Camp for the SS and a place that there was a lot of medical "experimentation". We spent over 4 hours here. There ...

... We have a last coffee, standing up at the bar a la Italia and then head back to the hotel for breakfast. We've thoroughly enjoyed our time here and look forward to our last trip up the canal. The flight arrives in Berlin at 3pm and we need to switch modes and get our bearings! We mull over a map and finally work out how to catch the regional train to Alexanderplatz and then a tram ...

... realities of that history. I was especially taken with two of the spaces.

The first was the Garden of Exile, a courtyard filled with concrete slabs, paved with cobblestones, and designed so that all the paths were set on a slight angle, creating a sense of disorientation and a mild feeling of queasiness in the walker. On the sunny day that we visited the museum, the patterns of light and shadow created by the blocks seemed to have ...